Tyrrano

Will it rip my arms out of my sockets?

Most important thing from that wiki...

Oh, I am, but I could always use a couple more for my fire2 tank...

Definitely. My SS brute has two sets working overtime. I actually think I have the proc slotted in almost every attack he has - they used to be unbelievably cheap if you were patient.

Exactly what I meant. The taunt itself is auto-hit. I prefer to put procs in auto-hit powers whenever possible. My Ice controller, for example, has two or maybe three damage procs in 'Arctic Air' - very fun to run into melee and watch orange numbers popping up randomly like popcorn...

I find it hilarious that I said the same exact thing in a completely different thread (different sub-forum, too) Actually had me confused there for a sec.

Heh, no doubt. My wife has a horrid habit of doing that. Her idea of an apology was:

"I'm sorry, but..." followed by a justification.

We finally had it out, and I said, "If the word 'but' is anywhere in the sentence, then it isn't an apology. It's a justification."

That was a rough fight (and we don't fight often) but things have gotten much better since then. I actually do get sincere apologies on occasion now. Heh, 17 years and we're still learning how to 'get it right.'

Quick, go buy a PowerBall ticket!

While you've debated the finer points of how targeting *should* function, you've missed the overall point of the debate. I don't know if you really had a bug specific to your machine, or what, and it really doesn't matter. You are essentially saying that you are inconvenienced by this 'change', and that the game should be changed again to function the way you want. So everyone else who plays this game should re-learn how to use the targeting controls *your* way. Whether your method is intrinsically 'better' is beside the point.

It boils down to: ME > Everyone else.

Now if everyone else was experiencing the same thing, it'd be a whole different situation. But then in that case, there would be a dozen different threads on this same topic.

Bottom line is, even if your way were 10x better than the WAI current way, I doubt seriously that it'd get changed. Such a change would annoy a lot of players. Me? Enh, I'd probably think "WTF did they do that? Oh well..." and move on. But then I'm easy.

Sam, you're giving these 'people' far too much credit. They don't care how you got to 50. They don't care about anything other than themselves. You can help them get what they want faster, ergo, you must do it for them, and you must like it.

Luckily in CoX we can /ignore, we can go play on another server, etc. Unfortunately we don't have those tools in real life.

Well, I helped someone new earlier in the week myself. And I've seen a half-dozen 'I'm new, what do I do?' threads on this forum this week, too. So I guess it'll only take us 1000 years to catch WoW.

Not really. PvP changes lots of things, and you're playing against a person, not our (questionable) AI. It's like comparing apples and earthworms.

Seconded, basically a somewhat-inaccurate ranged AoE that costs no END. And taunts as a bonus.

Of course, promoting this use means the cost of the taunt proc is gonna go up now. Thanks, Aggy.

Ew. Do that, and you give new life to the debate on PvE content in PvP zones.

Really Do Not Want.

(Note: Edited this comment *HEAVILY* because I *really* don't want to restart that argument yet again. The horse is dead enough.)

Virtue and Freedom are the most crowded.

However.

City of Heroes/Villains is heavily instance-based. There are a few spots where some players gather, but you won't see huge throngs of toons hanging out like you do in other MMOs. They are all doing door missions. You'll want to learn to use the team search tool, and also find the global channels on your specific server to find/make teams.

Also, are you on a trial? Due to RMT spammers, trial accounts are severely gimped. Basically it makes it nearly impossible to communicate in anything other than local chat, which must be highly irritating.

Oh yeah, and Welcome to City of Heroes! You'll get lots more suggestions in this thread momentarily.

Not to mention that they have more important things on their plate, like oh, say, Going Rogue (and fixing all of i17's bugs before GR hits...)

Apparently you're the only one then. My TAB key has always cycled outwards after a defeat, which is why I double-click my next attack to force a target-nearest. Perhaps it'd be possible to write a macro that would function the way you're describing?

Reading the OP's tales in 'Rude Tells', I think you'd classify any of them as jerks.

While I'll grant that I've never been personally present during any of these stories and so the possibility exists that they are provoked, if even a third of what he says is true then he is a genuine twit magnet. Of course, where most of us might experience a bit of jerkiness and just ignore the other player or leave or whatever, Psychoti has a knack for saying the right thing to get them to look like utter morons.

/Getting? the temps should be OK, if I understand the issue. You just don't want to try and summon the pet when exemplared, because it doesn't work.

Oh, Good Honk. Now I've got that in my head. Thanks a *million*.

Unless your name is Psychoti, apparently.

You actually talked to me in Wentworths one night. OK, I'd have to admit you weren't particularly enthusiastic.

That *would* be ridiculous, if it were what he said.
Note that he didn't say that he put it back *because* of the complaints.

We know the prompt was removed due to an exploit. I expect that whoever found the exploit came to Castle and said, "We have an exploit we need to shut down. Can you remove the prompt from MF until we can fix it? We can put it back once the fix is ready." So Castle did that. People complained. When the fix was ready, he was told by the bug-fix crew that he could put the prompt back in the way it was. He did that. The complainers shut up, but the other side started complaining about bringing back the prompt. Thus the lament, basically "I can't win for losing".

Heh, I can relate to that.

This statement goes along with the scenario I outlined above. I imagine that Castle has autonomy within the context of how the powers themselves function. But someone else makes the decisions about how the User Interface triggers those powers.

Trick Arrow's problems aren't huge - it's a bunch of little issues that combine into bigger problems. Funny, that's kinda how the set works, too. Trick Arrow can get almost competitive when you total up all the debuffs, but the problem is the *time* it takes to get all those debuffs out there. You may only get a few seconds of actual debuff stacking because the first ones are expiring as you're firing off the last ones. On large, capable teams, most spawns are smoked before you can get all your debuffs laid down. Solo, by the time you get them all out there *you* might get smoked.

Mind, I'm not commenting upon the total effectiveness of TA - lots of people with far better research and numbers have weighed in here.

What if TA were able to fire two or three powers simultaneously? Imagine hitting a Lt. with Ice to hold him and Glue to debuff his friends with the first shot, or locking down a boss with Ice+EMP. How useful would it be to lay down OSA and DIsrupt together?

It'd be interesting to see how this could be implemented. Would it be a separate power that replaces something else? Maybe attach it to Flash Arrow - Click on FA, then on one or two other targeted TA powers, then click FA again and all three fire together.

ANyway, I'm sure there are lots of pratfalls I'm not thinking of, and as usual coding it would probably require a complete rewrite of the entire set, but hey, it's just an idea.

I think Adeon is right here. Of course, you might get fewer drops per kill but on a good team you can make up the difference by the huge numbers of kills.

DK, I'm glad you warned him of that. I messed up long ago - don't remember what I did. I think I started with City of Villains, and when I upgraded with GvE version to get Hero-side, I accidentally created a second account.

Luckily the good folks in customer support got it all straightened out for me. That's always an option if you mess up the 'upgrade'

Glad we could help. Go tell all yer friends!